A protester holds a sign while wearing protective clothing during a New Yorkers Against Fracking news conference at the Capitol in Albany.

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MARK KACZYNSKI
Guest Essayist

I would like to respond to a recent Letter to the Editor ("New York is standing in the way of progress"). About the only thing in the letter that I can agree with is "We should gather data from states that currently permit fracking." I would like to expand that concept to include asking, "Would you do it again?"

The letter writer states that the ill effects are not significant. This obviously ignores the study by Duke University that shows a majority of tainted groundwater supplies occurring within 1 kilometer of drilling sites. How about the radioactive equipment that ends up being disposed of in ...